There are not a few in this country who have not received emails from people who claim that they have either hacked your PC, that they want to borrow money or that they have recordings of you watching porn.
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Those who go on the scam often end up with thousands of kroner in the red, and the scammers are left with millions if everything goes according to plan.
However, there are some who take it all one step further. Influencer Ramon Abbas (37) is one of these, according to the police.
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From poor to billionaire
In recent years, Ramon Abbas has shared photos and videos of wild wealth and luxury with his 2.5 million Instagram followers. On social media, he goes by the name Hushpuppi.
He is now considered one of the world’s biggest scammers by the FBI, and risks 20 years in prison, according to BBC.
The 37-year-old started his career in Oworonshoki, a poor neighborhood in Nigeria’s largest city Lagos. There he worked in the market with his mother, while his father worked as a taxi driver.
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But how does one really go from being a boy from cramped conditions in Nigeria, to becoming a billionaire in Dubai? According to the police, he found his foothold in the world as a “Yahoo boy”.
Yahoo boys got their name from the first free email service in Nigeria – Yahoo. The scammers began by stealing identities, which later developed into dating scams.
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“Fuck”
Like many other Yahoo boys, Abbas is said to have broadened his criminal horizons, and in 2014 he ended up with several of his “colleagues” in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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In 2017, however, the journey continued to Dubai, where residents often wallow in lavish luxury. Then the Instagram posts and crime also escalated in step with the expensive lifestyle.
In February 2019, the 37-year-old tried to launder 13 million euros, 132.7 million Norwegian kroner, which was stolen by North Korean hackers from the Bank of Valletta, according to the BBC, which has gained access to recent court documents.
There must have been complete chaos among the bank’s customers. However, the bank managed to get back around ten million euros after the fraud was discovered.
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“Damn,” Abbas wrote in a text message the FBI has obtained from one of its fraudulent colleagues.
“The next one is in a few weeks; notifies you when it is ready. Too bad they discovered it, otherwise it would have been a nice payout “, was the answer he got from his colleague.
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Tried to scam football club
A few months later, in May 2019, the 37-year-old was given the task of setting up a bank account in Mexico.
The account was to receive 100 million pounds, equivalent to just over 1.1 billion kroner, from a football club in the Premier League, as well as 200 million pounds from a British company. Neither the club nor the company is named in the court documents.
The fraud was to take place via director fraud. In short, it works by capturing payments via fake emails that appear to come from an address similar to the actual provider. Only one letter or number will be different in the sender address, according to Nettvett.
The scam fell apart after British banks refused to pay money to a Mexican account.
“Brother, I can not ship from Britain to Mexico. They find out all the time “, Abbas wrote in a text message.
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Scams
Today, the 37-year-old is in police custody in the United States. However, he is said to have made one last attempt at fraud before he was arrested.
In June last year, he stole the identity of a banker from New York to deceive his victim – a businessman from Qatar who wanted to borrow $ 15 million, equivalent to $ 128 million, to build a school in the Arab Gulf states.
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Between December 2019 and February 2020, Abbas and a gang of intermediaries from Kenya, Nigeria and the United States managed to defraud the victim of more than one million dollars. Some of the money was laundered by buying a watch worth $ 230,000.
Threatened with beatings
Shortly afterwards, however, one of the gang members threatened to expose the fraud because he was dissatisfied with the payment he received. That caused Abbas to rage.
“I want him to go through a proper beating. I want to spend money on sending this guy to jail, let him disappear for a long time “, he wrote in a text message to the Nigerian policeman Abba Kyari, according to the BBC.
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Kyari did as he was told, and is now wanted in the United States for fraud, money laundering and identity theft.
